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158 FLIGHT AUGUST I.STH, 1946 HERE AND THERE The 8-36 Flies AMERICA'S new 125-ton bomber, theB-36 made a 38-minute maiden flight last week.Claimed to be the world's biggest land- based bomber, it has a maximum rangeof IO,000 miles and a maximum bomb- load of 30 tons—but not both together. As She ts Spoke THE publication of a number ofR.A.F. books in Paris has been pre- senting the translator with quite a fewheadaches, it seems. The trouble, of course, was in coping with some of themore picturesque slang, expressions for which the Service has become famous—or shquld we say notorious? From all accounts, it would appearthat the tendency is to invent French phrases which, while being approxi-mately parallel in most cases, fail to convey the crisp vigour of the original. This is a great pity and, with a lan-guage as pliable and fluid as French, could surely have been avoided.Somebody should tell the translator— qu'il doit en tirer le doigt, n'est ce pas? "Mercy" Flight Mishap THE B.S.A.A. Lancastrian, Star Trail,completed the last 1,000 miles of her flight from Chile recently with one of herfour engines out of action. This was don, because she carried an urgentmedical case for whom delay might well have been fatal. Lt. Col. G. O. Simson, British Mili-tary Attache in Santiago, dangerously ill with an abscess on the lung, was beingrushed to London accompanied by his wife, and on taking off from Lisbon theport outer developed a bad oil leak. '' I feathered the airscrew andswitched off," said the pilot, Capt. J. B. Linton, A.F.C., "and normally I shouldhave turned back, but as this was a case of life and death I pressed on toEngland." Radio Rockets v THE Swedish Defence Staff last weekissued a statement confirming re- ports that some radio-controlled rocketshave crossed Swedish territory, generally coming from the south and leaving in aneasterly direction. It adds that the majority of some 300reports of rockets are probably exagger- ated, but that "enough reliable informa-tion remains to enable the conclusion to be drawn that some rockets are beingsent." No rocket parts have, however, beenfound. K.L.M. Resignations A CCORDING to the Hague newspaper, **• Haagsch Dagblad, there is somefriction in the Royal Dutch Airlines (K.L.M.) organization because of the re- ,instatement of a member of the staff who had previously been discharged. This member, says the newspaper, wasdischarged on account of his attitude during the occupation of Holland, and as.a result of his subsequent reinstatement, Mr. Hans Martin, the K.L.M. manager,and Dr. L. H. Slotemaker, the secretary, have resigned. Other leading membersof the airline are thought likely also to resign. The Danes Were Amazed TDILOTS and officials of Danish Airlines-L who waited on the small airfield at Bjornholm recently for the arrival of ademonstration Wayfarer, flown over frojfi Northolt by Mr. A. J. Pegg, expressedastonishment when the British pilot put the big aircraft down without trouble onthe 5oo-6ooyd grass runway. No machine of that size and weighthad ever previously used this little air- field, and the Danes quite expected that POWERED POGO : This American one-man " hoppicopter " is fitted with a flat-twin two-stroke engine and somewhat resembles an earlier German /./ mcdel. Mr. Pegg would have to return to Copen-hagen, where he had landed after cross- ing the North Sea.Capt. Paul Jensen, of Danish Airlines, acted as co-pilot on the round tripbetween Bristol and Copenhagen to report on the general handling character-istics of the aircraft. Naivety or Nerve?H OW is one to assess the mentality ofan ex-captain of the Luftwaffe, aged 27, who cheerfully applies for a pilot'sjob with a British concern ? This young German, answering an ad-vertisement inserted in Flight some weeks ago by British Aviation ServicesLtd., is admittedly described as "com- EXPRESS PARCEL. An impressive flying view of the Fairchild C-82 " Packet " which, powered by a pair of 18 cyl. 2,100 h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines, can carry a 9 ton payload at 200 m.p.h. It was originally designed as a military transport, but is now being developed for the carriage of commercial cargoes.
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